The association that governs school athletics in New Jersey says it will not require a doctor’s note, or any other type of proof, to allow transgender students to compete against students competing within their assigned gender at birth.
The New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association has decided it will require no proof that a student who claims to be transgender is undergoing a doctor’s care, or that they are beginning any drug therapies or surgical procedures to be certified as “transgender.” The new policy maintains that all such students will need to do is make the claim they feel like being a different gender and it will be accepted at face value, accordingto the Christian Post.
The policy statement released this week defines a transgender student as “a student whose gender identity differs from the student’s sex assigned at birth” and notes such students “shall be eligible to participate with either their birth sex or in accordance with their gender identity, but not both.”
The policy also allows that a student who once claimed to be transgender can reverse their transgender claim and go back to competing with students in their birth gender.
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